Archive: October 2007
” … leading music producer and top executive of entertainment conglomerate Urban Bew says it could have been a hit because nothing was stolen from him. ‘They shot him at close range to make sure he did not survive,’ he said. … “ Unlucky Dube, but the biggest loser is AfricaBy JOHN KARIUKITO MILLIONS OF AFRICANS, THE COLD-blooded murder of
By Patrick J. O’Donoghuevheadline.comOctober 28, 2007 All the Venezuelan President’s phone lines are tapped and for sale VHeadline.com News Editor Patrick J. O’Donoghue writes: In his weekly column editor/publisher, Miguel Salazar claims that phone and electronic recordings have been on the rise over the last couple of months. Salazar highlights but witholds some of the people involved in
By Ryan Singel Wired, October 29, 2007 From the company that brought you the C programming language comes Hancock, a C variant developed by AT&T researchers to mine gigabytes of the company’s telephone and internet records for surveillance purposes. An AT&T research paper published in 2001 and unearthed today by Andrew Appel at Freedom to Tinker shows how the phone
State Legislator Gave Paper False Account Of Gay Sex Incident By Joe Strupp Editor & Publisher, October 31, 2007 NEW YORK A state legislator who denied to The Columbian of Vancouver, Wash., on Monday that he had gay sex with someone he met at a pornography store admitted to police a day later that it had occurred, the Columbian reported.
Newport businessman aided sheriff’s conspiracy, court says By Michael Miller http://www.dailypilot.com/articles/2007/10/30/publicsafety/doc472794428a883463486522.txt Corona del Mar businessman Donald Haidl provided thousands of dollars in illegal payments to Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona in exchange for an assistant sheriff job and special treatment for his family and friends, according to an indictment unsealed today. The indictment of Carona, filed in October 2005 in
” … The minutes of a secret 1975 U.S. National Security Council meeting attended by President Ford, reveal Henry Kissinger grumbling, ‘It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.’ … ” Kissinger: Defender of Israeli hegemony By Gul Jammas Hussain Tehran Times Machiavelli must be turning in his grave
“At a news conference Thursday, federal and local investigators said they recovered evidence from a hollow where the Silverado Canyon wildfire started. They said they were confident the flames had been deliberately started with a form of ‘liquid fuel.’ … ” – “Arson evidence whips up anger,” Chicago Tribune, October 28, 2007 One arson suspect won’t have much to say,
John “Pat” Philbin, the FEMA official who oversaw a fake news conference last week, will not be taking a job today as the chief spokesman for National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell, the Associated Press says. The wire service quotes an intelligence official who says the agency is reevaluating Philbin’s record in light of the high-profile incident, which featured government employees
By Alex Constantine If there was a Most Offensive Right-Wing Propaganda Award, New Media Alliance would win it hands down. The NMA gave us “Haditha Massacre: Media and Terrorist Hoax?” (http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/zieve/070813), which ranks with Holocaust denial for its duplicity, and this bit of tripe, also by Sher Zieve, a staff writer for the NMA: Zieve Iran Poised to Take Over
By Jeff Huber Pen and Sword The “Neo-connecting the Dots to Iran” series in its entirety… October 07, 2007 Part I If we’ve learned one thing about the Bush administration, it’s that if at first they don’t succeed with a stunt, they’ll pull, pull and pull it again until they get away with it. Thus it is that even as